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Wendell Berry:
"We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it."
--from an essay in "The Long-Legged House"
"The word agriculture, after all, does not mean "agriscience," much less "agribusiness." It means "cultivation of land." And cultivation is at the root of the sense both of culture and of cult. The ideas of tillage and worship are thus joined in culture. And these words all come from an Indo-European root meaning both "to revolve" and "to dwell." To live, to survive on the earth, to care for the soil, and to worship, all are bound at the root to the idea of a cycle. It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term "agribusiness."
"Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating."
--both the above are from essays in "The Art of the Commonplace: Agrarian Essays"
"An atheist is just somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian feels about Thor, or Ba'al, or The Golden Calf. As has been said before, we are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further," Richard Dawkins, 2002.
fast grow the weeds 
WOW! That stuff is GREAT! I love that noir style! excellent!
Have a great time – we are off to London for the weekend and, like you, my proposed itinerary is largely restaurants and delis!
Jane
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This very intriquing. Does he do commisions… like uh… favorite books? (Although I’m not sure I could stand to see them cut.)
Very interesting.
Great work. Really original. I used to live right down the street from that gallery, on west 27th street when I attended FIT right out of high school. I don’t think that gallery was there then though. That was pre-Chelsea gentrification. The very best bagels were at Chelsea Bagelry. The onion bagel with the pimento cream cheese. Yum. Hope you had a fabulous time and got to eat lots of bagels.
I’m glad you like his work, Stacie (I do, too). Jane, I hope to get back to London within the next year or so, this time to promote Tom’s stuff. Isn’t it great to get away from the farm? It makes you appreciate things more. And Hank, his commissions have mostly been for magazine work; I am not sure how many “personal” ones he’s done…and surprisingly, he is very respectful to the book. (He doesn’t cut all the way through, for example.) Meredith, what a small world. Yeah, W 27th St/Chelsea are probably nearly unrecognizable to you now. Lots of clubs, galleries, scmantzy fancy bars, etc. Know exactly where Chelsea bagels is, and even walked by FIT this trip. Funny. And now you have a garden, and chickens!